Ohio GOP Files Complaint Over Provisional Ballots

[OhioChick]

Source: AP

POSTED: 4:45 pm EST November 4, 2008
UPDATED: 4:48 pm EST November 4, 2008

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio Republicans have asked a federal judge in Columbus to require that provisional ballots be verified and counted the same way statewide.

The legal action filed Tuesday by the Ohio GOP updates an earlier Republican lawsuit against Ohio's top elections official, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, a Democrat.

The GOP says it's concerned provisional ballots will be handled differently across Ohio. Provisional ballots are those cast by voters whose registration has been questioned. The ballots are held for 10 days while elections workers check voter eligibility before they are counted.

Republicans say Brunner had issued "vague and confusing instructions" on handling provisional ballots and seemed to encourage local officials to overlook non-matching signatures.

Brunner called the GOP legal action partisan and troubling.




Read more: http://www.newsnet5.com/politics/17891288/detail.html

[TXDemGal]

1. Goopers afraid provisional ballots will be handled differently across state

Yeah, they're probably afraid some counties will actually COUNT them.

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. No probably about it! Anyway, the plain fact is, people's signatures can

change. The signatures on my now defunct credit cards differed quite wildly, as I experimented with a pretentiously undecipherable signature - posing as a doctor, sort of thing. But since it didn't look much different from a more or less straight line, I went back to a more painstakingly accurate script - though still a bit more flash!

[stillcool]

3. How many lawsuits is this now?

[blue sky at night]

4. what was the problem in 2004....

bunch of whiney aholes.....now that the shoe is on the other foot, they want to worry about provisionals. Hey if they had counted them in 2004 we would be talking about President Kerry running for re-election.



Zooming ahead at the speeeeed of PIE!!!!










CHange, HOpe, OBama/BIden..........!!!!

[Up2Late]

5. And this is news? Sounds like typical GOP crap to me.

:grr:

[OhioChick]

6. Yep...

They've been filing lawsuits every other week here.